{"id":1966,"date":"2008-10-28T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2008-10-28T08:17:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T13:17:45","slug":"stolen-pixels-33literacy-is-not-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1966","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #33:<br\/>Literacy is not a Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/5409-Stolen-Pixels-33-Literacy-is-not-a-Superpower\">latest comic<\/a> deals with the ongoing siege of the English language perpetrated by the armies of MMOs and txtspeaking.  <\/p>\n<p>As a supplement to today&#8217;s comic, I present this:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/coh_typo.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='coh_typo.jpg' title='coh_typo.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The player took the time to correct his earlier typo, by&#8230; making sure he typed out the mangled word as intended.  He was only a couple of characters short of &#8220;you&#8217;re&#8221;, which I assume is the word he was groping for. <\/p>\n<p>Why must young people do this to our language? Can&#8217;t they just smoke pot and have drunken, unprotected sex like previous generations?  <\/p>\n<p>Oh, they do that too?  Ah well.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest comic deals with the ongoing siege of the English language perpetrated by the armies of MMOs and txtspeaking. As a supplement to today&#8217;s comic, I present this: The player took the time to correct his earlier typo, by&#8230; making sure he typed out the mangled word as intended. He was only a couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[123,525],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-coh","tag-stolen-pixels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}